family-three beloved sons, natives of India, and a no less beloved daughter, a native of America, by his wife Miss Anne Curtis of South Carolina. He himself has gone down to the tomb full of years, the latest of which have been troubled with disease, and overclouded by domestic privations. He has left behind him friends who appreciated his many valuable qualities, and sincerely respect his memory. Gentleman's Magazine. LEONARD, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard; Oct. 31. 1833; at Lundy Lane; near the falls of Niagara.
He entered the army as an Ensign in the 54th foot, in Dec. 1796, and became Lieutenant in the February following. After serving in Ireland during the rebellion of 1798, he em- barked from Southampton, and joined Sir Ralph Abercromby in the Mediterra- nean. He served the campaign of 1801 in Egypt, and was Assistant En- gineer during the siege of Alexandria. In 1803 he was appointed Town Major of New Brunswick; and in 1805 he obtained a Company in the New Brunswick regiment, afterwards the 104th foot, and continued to hold both those appointments until 1813, when he resigned the former, on his regiment being ordered to Canada. In April he was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-general; and in that situation obtained permission to head his com- pany in the attack made on Locket's Harbour on the 29th of May, in which his company suffered severely, and he was himself wounded.
In the campaign of 1814 he was again actively employed. He bore a part in the action of the 25th of July at Lundy Lane, and was honourably mentioned in Sir Gordon Drummond's despatches of that action. In the as- sault on Fort Erie, on the 15th of August, he was severely wounded, and disabled from further service in the campaign. He succeeded to the Ma- jority vacated by the death of Lieut- Col. Drummond, who was killed at Fort Erie, and served with the 104th in Lower Canada until it was disband- ed in 1817. He subsequently retired to a small property he had purchased, part of the ground on which the action of Lundy Lane was fought, and there closed his honourable career. Royal Military Calendar.
LUKIN, Lionel, Esq.; Feb. 16. 1834; at Hythe; in his 92d year.
This gentleman was a native of Essex, and for many years an eminent coach builder of Long Acre. In that capacity he had frequently the honour of waiting upon his late Majesty, when Prince of Wales; and his Royal High- ness condescended to take an interest in his scientific pursuits, and particularly in the safety-boat of which he was the inventor. His first experiments for this purpose were made on a Norway yawl, which he purchased in 1784; and, having completed the alterations he deemed necessary, and proved their efficacy as far as practicable on the Thames, he procured a patent for the invention, which bore date the 2d of November, 1785, and the specification was printed in the third volume of the Repertory of Arts.
About the same time, in addition to his conversation on the subject with the Prince of Wales, he had interviews with the Dukes of Northum- berland and Portland, Adm. Sir R. King, Adm. Schank, and other in- fluential persons; and, above all, with Lord Howe, then first Lord of the Admiralty, who gave him strong verbal approbation, but was not induced to take any official steps to further his views. Shortly after, he was recommended by Capt. James, then Deputy Master of the Trinity House, to entrust his boat, which he had named the Experi- ment, into the hands of a Ramsgate pilot, then in London, in order that its powers might be put to the utmost test in violent weather. This was done; but he never heard any more from the man, nor received any remuneration for the Experiment and its furniture! He heard, indeed, that the boat had frequently crossed the Channel at times when no other could venture out; and it was surmised that, having been detected in illicit traffic, it had been confiscated and destroyed abroad.
Having thus disposed of his first boat, Mr. Lukin immediately built a new one for his own use (about 20 feet long, like the former), which, from the prodigies it performed, he named the Witch. It was let to several persons, and among others to Sir Sidney Smith, who in repeated trials found that it could neither be overset nor sunk; and its rapidity of sailing (from its ability to carry a greater quantity of canvas than usual) was triumphantly proved by Mr. Lukin himself at Margate.
Though for a time Mr. Lukin's
Unimmergible Boats" excited very general discussion; yet, like many similar inventions rather desirable than absolutely requisite, he had little de- mand for them. Besides fitting up a boat for the Bamborough Charity, he built only four after his own. One of these has often proved of vital utility at Lowestoft.
Some time, however, after his patent was expired, he was mortified to wit- ness the attention excited by the inven- tion of Mr. Greathead, a boat-builder of Shields, who received not only the honorary approbation of the Society of Arts, but afterwards a pecuniary reward from Parliament; though, to use Mr. Lukin's own words, Mr. Greathead's Life Boat was, "as to all the essential principles of safety, precisely according to my patent, and differed from it in no considerable respect, except the curved keel, which contributes nothing to the general principles of safety, but renders it unfit for sailing boat." It may be remarked that the importance of a NAME is in general too little con- sidered, or at least not considered in a right point of view it is foolishly ima- gined that the public is most attracted by Greek and grandiloquence; but perhaps we may attribute Mr. Great- head's success to this circumstance, that, while Mr. Lukin's Unimmergible Boat seemed to demand some troublesome exercise of the understanding to com- prehend its mysterious meaning, the title of the Life Boat spoke at once to the sympathies of the heart.
In 1806 a correspondent of "The Gentleman's Magazine" put forward a claim to the invention of the Life Boat, în opposition to that of Greathead, on the part of Mr. Wouldhave of New- castle; and Mr. Lukin in consequence wrote three letters, asserting the priority of his own patent, which were printed in vol. lxxvi. pp. 621. 819. 1110. The same party (Mr. Hails, of New- castle) having about the same time published a pamphlet on the subject, Mr. Lukin also thought proper to do the same, which he put forward under the title of "The Invention, Principles of Construction, and Uses of Unim- mergible Boats; stated in a Letter to his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales," 8vo. pp. 36. with a plate.
Mr. Lukin's mechanical ingenuity was exercised, as might be expected, in his own business; he was the author of several useful improvements in the
construction and conveniences of car- riages. He also invented a raft to as- sist in raising persons from under ice, which he presented to the Humane So ciety, and it has been successfully em- ployed in Hyde Park. He contrived an easily inclining and elevating bed- stead, for the comfort of impotent inva- lids, and presented one to several infir- maries. He was also skilled in the higher sciences; and pursued the study of astronomy, geometry, optics, and hydraulics. He invented a pluvio- meter, and kept for many years a diary of the weather, which he compared with that of a correspondent at Budleigh in Devonshire, and which he continued until the year 1824, when his eyesight failed.
Mr. Lukin was at the time of his death the oldest Vestryman in the Parish of St. Martin in the Fields. About eleven years ago he dined at Teddington with four of his brothers, whose ages averaged 76 years. By his first wife, Miss Walker of Bishop's Stortford, he has left issue a son and a daughter, the former of whom has issue. He married, secondly, Miss Hesther Clissold, of Reading, who survives him.
His body was buried in the church- yard of St. Leonard's, Hythe. - Gen- tleman's Magazine.
MANBY, Thomas, Esq. Rear-Ad- miral of the White; suddenly, at the George Inn, Southampton, in conse- quence of having taken an excessive dose of opium; June 18th, 1834; aged 67.
This officer was son of Matthew Pepper Manby, Esq. of Hilgay, in Norfolk, a Captain in the Welsh Fu- sileers, and brother to Captain George Manby, formerly Barrack-master at Yarmouth, who received 2000. from Parliament for the invention of a life- preserving apparatus.
He entered the navy at the age of sixteen, as Midshipman in the Hyæna, 24, and served with diligence and at- tention on the Irish and West India stations. In 1790, in consequence of the testimonials he produced, Captain Vancouver gave him a master's-mate rating on board the Discovery, which sailed to explore the north-west coast of America, and to claim from the
Spaniards the restitution of Nootka. Whilst the negociations were pending at that place, Mr. Manby was appointed to act as Master of the Chatham tender, in which situation he encountered the perilous navigation of those seas with so much skill, that, in September, 1794, Captain Vancouver promoted him to act as Second Lieutenant of the Discovery. He filled that station until the return of the expedition to England, in October, 1795, when his commission was confirmed by the Admiralty.
Lieutenant Manby was serving in the Juste, of 80 guns, when Lord Hugh Seymour was appointed to command a squadron in the South Seas, on which occasion his Lordship applied for Lieutenant Manby's assistance in such terms, that he was made a Commander in 1796, and appointed to the Charon, which was commissioned as a storeship to attend the squadron. The expedition did not take place, but our officer retained his command on the Channel station, until he obtained the rank of Post Captain, in January, 1799. His services in watching the safety of convoys had recommended him to notice, and he was shortly after nominated to the Bourdelais, of 24 guns.
On the 1st of December, 1800, the Bourdelais sailed from Portsmouth with the Andromeda and Fury, and a large convoy of West Indiamen ; but the fleet was dispersed by a furious gale. On the 8th of January he retook one of the merchantmen, which had been captured by the Mouche privateer, and another two days afterward. Having gained his station off Barbadoes, on the 29th of the same month he was chased by three sail, and, having shortened sail to save them trouble, engaged with the largest brig, the Curieux, of 18 guns, which, after an action of about thirty minutes, was so completely riddled, as shortly after to sink, unfortunately with two midshipmen and five seamen, who were assisting in removing the wounded enemy. In the meantime the consorts of the Curieux effected their escape. Captain Manby remained in the West Indies during the remainder of the war, and returned to England, in command of the Juno frigate, in July,
After the recommencement of hostilities, Captain Manby obtained the command of the Africaine, a fine 28gun frigate; and he afterwards com
manded the Uranie and Thalia, and tried all the vicissitudes of climate, between the West Indies and the coast of Greenland. His health at length became so broken, that he was compelled to resign his ship at the close of 1808, and he was never after commissioned. Although never restored to perfect health, he enjoyed many years of comparative ease and happiness in the quiet of domestic life. He attained the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1830.
He married in 1800 Miss Hammond, of Northwold, by whom he had two daughters, one of whom was married in 1827 to James Dawes, Esq. of Hampshire, who, in the following year, was created Baron de Flasson, with letters of naturalisation under the great seal of France, enabling him to hold the royal domain of Flasson, presented to him by the Prince of Condé. Abridged from Marshall's Royal Naval Biography.
MARTIN, Richard, Esq, formerly M.P. for the County of Galway; January 6th, 1834; at Boulogne; in his 80th year.
This eccentric personage was originally a gentleman of good fortune, and was elected to represent the county of Galway in the first parliament after the Union, of which measure he had been a warm advocate. He resided at Ballynahinch in that county; and commanded a troop of yeomanry, and a corps of infantry. He was also particularly attached to the sports of the field. But his fame chiefly rests upon his devoted patronage, in his latter days, of those members of the brute. creation, which are doomed to suffer in the streets of the metropolis. In their defence he obtained an Act of Parliament, which is known by his name; and, whilst he continued in London, he was indefatigable in bringing before the magistrates cases in which it might be put into execution.
At length, however, in the year 1826, Mr. Martin lost his election for the county he had then represented in six parliaments; and his embarrassed circumstances consequently drove him abroad. His son, Richard Martin, Esq. of Ballynahinch, is the present member for Galwayshire. Gentleman's Magazine.
MILLS, the Rev. William, B. D., Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and late Professor of Moral Philosophy in that University; May 8. 1834; at
Madeira, whither he had gone for the recovery of his health.
He received a part of his early edu- cation under the Rev. Dr. Ellerton, at Magdalen School, and was elected Demy in 1810. After passing a bril- liant examination in the schools, and obtaining his degree of B. A., he con- tinued for several years as tutor in the family of General Sir Alexander Hope, with whom he resided at Dresden and at Florence, and acquired during his stay in those capitals a great command of the German and Italian languages. He afterwards resided, until a short time before his death, principally at Oxford, and, during the latter portion of the time, held the office of College Tutor. In him the University has sus- tained the loss of one of its brighest or- naments a man who conciliated the regard of all that knew him, by the qualities of the heart no less than of the head; and who, in the capacity, whether of Public Examiner, of Select Preacher, or of Professor, displayed talents of a high order, and such as are but rarely seen united. An elegant and correct scholar, in the ordinary acceptation of that term, he evinced likewise an exten- sive acquaintance with the languages and literature of modern Europe. With a mind sufficiently subtle to relish and to apprehend the refined investigations of the Grecian and German metaphysi- cians, he possessed the power of render- ing them clear and attractive to others, by the charms of a luminous and po- lished style; retaining a due respect and preference for established opinions, he showed himself candid and discrimi- nating in his appreciation of those which were novel. Such were his claims to the regard and esteem of the Univer- sity at large; but by the individuals of his own college his loss is still more deeply deplored. The junior portion of the Society has, by his death, been deprived of an instructor, endeared to them by the amenity of his manners, and both willing and able to lead them forward in the paths of sound learning; whilst the older members have to lament the loss of a friend, whose sound and acute intellect might be appealed to on graver occasions, and whose various ac- complishments served to enliven and diversify the daily intercourse of life- of one whose piety, untinged with either fanaticism or exclusiveness, supplied them with a model for imitation, and whose kindly feelings and liberal views
extended their genial influence over the circle in which he moved, and reflected a lustre upon the Society to which he belonged. His only publications are, an able ❝ Disquisition on the Notions of the Jews and Heathens respecting a future State;" and a Sermon preach- ed in the pulpit of St. Mary's immedi- ately after the meeting of the British Association in 1830, entitled "Chris- tian Humility as opposed to the Pride of Science," which was printed at the express desire of some of the leading members of the Association.
It is to be hoped, however, that his Lectures on Moral Philosophy will not be altogether lost to the public, but may meet with some competent editor. Gentleman's Magazine.
MURRAY, John, Esq., M. D.; Sept. 12. 1833; at his house in West- gate Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, aged 65.
He was the son of the Rev. James Murray, who was the first minister of the meeting-house now occupied by a congregation of Scotch Presbyterians in the High Bridge, Newcastle; and also author of numerous works on re- ligion and politics; to whose memory there is a gravestone in St. Andrew's churchyard, bearing this inscription : "The congregation of Protestant Dis- senters, assembled at the High Bridge in this town, have placed this testimony to their late faithful and esteemed mini- ster, the Rev. James Murray, who fought a good fight, kept the faith, and finished his course the 28th June, 1782, aged 50 years. Dr. Murray's mother was Miss Sarah Weddle, whose father had an estate near Belford in Northum- berland, from whom it was inherited by the subject of this memoir and his brother William, who is a silk manu. facturer in Manchester. He had also two sisters, Jane, wife of Mr. Charles Hay of Newcastle, and Isabella, now residing at North Shields.
Mr. Murray studied medicine in Glasgow; and for many years practised with great success and celebrity as a surgeon. He was an intimate friend of Drs. Clarke and Young, and medi- cal adviser to themselves and families. Dr. Ramasy had also a high opinion of his medical talents. Prior to his death he had been 33 years surgeon to the Newcastle Dispensary, the last report for which bears this honourable testi- mony to his character, and zeal for the interests of that admirable institution :
“His valuable services for a period of 33 years; his talents and merits in the faithful discharge of his professional duties; his numberless acts of bene- ficence and private charity towards the poor; and his constant endeavour to promote the essential objects of the department he so ably upheld, will be long remembered and deeply appre- ciated with gratitude, not only by the Committee and Governors, but by all classes of the community."
Mr. Murray, in the early period of life, had a strong passion for scientific and literary pursuits. In 1792 he was a member of a small society of friends, who met weekly for mutual improve- ment in various departments of science, and who were the auspicious planters of that broad and umbrageous tree of knowledge," the Philosophical Society of Newcastle." Chemical science at that time was just beginning to unfold its wonders and its benefits to the in- habitants of that place; and Mr. Mur- ray was the first who prepared soda water there for sale. This he did by the common mode of pressure then in use. Finding this method tedious and inconvenient, he fell upon the expe- dient of disposing of it in strong glass bottles, which were made under his direction by the late Isaac Cookson, Esq.
The Gateshead corps of Volunteers was formed in 1803, under the com- mand of Lt. Col. Ellison, and with Mr. Murray for its Adjutant, in which important office his turn for military tactics was so strikingly dis- played, that at every review the in- specting officer was delighted with his tact and skill in carrying his corps through its various evolutions. In music, too, he was a master; and be- sides various pieces, such as the airs of "Tsadi the Moor,' "The Poor Vil- lage Maid," "The Blue Bell," "Dear Mary, my Love," "The Merry Sa- voyard," &c. &c. which have been pub- lished, he was the author of many other admired compositions still in manu- script.
notice, because his modesty threw a veil over his own perfections; but which could not be hid from the emi- nent practitioners who were his con- temporaries. And it must not be for- gotten to mention that while, in his office of Surgeon to the Dispensary, his skill and attention were unremittingly exerted among the poorest and most wretched of his patients, his benevolence often supported whole families where disease had destroyed the means of their subsistence. In domestic life he was docile and obliging; and in his habits systematically regular and abste- mious.
Milk, coffee, and tea were his common beverage; all fermented and distilled liquors he hated, and never tasted; still, however, for many years he could not be said to have enjoyed good health: for at times he suffered much from gout; and for the last two years of his life, some organic affection, it is supposed, in the brain, gradually deprived him of all consciousness of what was passing around him; and friendship and affection, for some months before his death, could only gaze on the living ruins of one who, in the prime of his intellectual powers, was the soul of the society he moved in, and the charm of domestic life.
He married Mary, daughter of Mr. Stoddart Rotherford, a wine-merchant in Newcastle, and widow of Mr. Clark, but died without issue. His remains were interred near those of his wife and father in St. Andrew's churchyard.— Gentleman's Magazine.
MURRAY, the Rev. Alexander, D. D., Professor of Oriental Languages in the University of Edinburgh.
Born in obscurity, amidst the bleak mountains of Galloway, Dr. Murray rose above all the difficulties of his birth and education; and at an early age he had made great attainments, not only in his own language, but in the dead languages, the knowledge of many of which he had acquired before he went to school. While prosecuting his studies at Edinburgh, he was se- lected by Mr. Constable to arrange the papers of Bruce the traveller; and be- fore he could begin he had to acquire a knowledge of various languages and their dialects, which he did with won- derful facility. When a communica- tion came to this country from the court of Abyssinia, the academies of the south failed to give it an interpret- ation, and they were under the neces-
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